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Read Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO
Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as  new CEO

Equinix announces Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as new CEO

March 14, 2024 Equinix

Equinix has appointed Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its new CEO to succeed Charles Meyers, who has led the company for six years. Fox-Martin who has led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally since early last year, has been a member of the Equinix board of Directors since 2020....

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Read Wex Inc. completes primary cloud migration
Wex Inc. completes primary cloud migration

Wex Inc. completes primary cloud migration

March 06, 2024 Amazon AWS

Global payment processing company Wex Inc. has completed its primary could migration with the full migration of the benefits segment in its annual report. The report did not disclse the cloud provider it moved to. However, the company in 2021 announced that it was entering into a multiyear...

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Read Amazon acquires Talen’s data center campus in Pennysylvania
Amazon acquires Talen’s data center campus in Pennysylvania

Amazon acquires Talen’s data center campus in Pennysylvania

March 06, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services has acquired Talen Energy’s 960MW Cumulusdata center campus at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. According to the investor presentation, Talen sold the site and assets of Cumulus Data for $650 million. The deal comprises $350 million at close and $300m escrowed,...

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Read Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center
Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center

Equinix deploys 1MW solar system on Melbourne data center

March 01, 2024 Equinix

Equinix has deployed a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at 578 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. The company has now completed the installation of rooftop solar systems at eight of its facilities, including Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, and...

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Read NTT Docomo selects AWS for Japan Open RAN deployment
NTT Docomo selects AWS for Japan Open RAN deployment

NTT Docomo selects AWS for Japan Open RAN deployment

February 27, 2024 Amazon AWS

NTT Docomo has chosen Amazon Web Services to support the commercial deployment of its 5G Open RAN network in Japan. The company will use AWS to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere), a container management software, at its 5G Open RAN. “Our philosophy at NTT...

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Read Clumio raises $75m in new funding round
 Clumio raises $75m in new funding round

Clumio raises $75m in new funding round

February 22, 2024 Amazon AWS

Public cloud data backup and recovery provider Clumio has raised $75m in a Series D round of funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Existing investors Index Ventures and Altimeter Capital, as well as new investor NewView Capital also participated in this round of funding. “Few markets are as big as...

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Read Google confirms expansion in South Carolina
Google confirms expansion in South Carolina

Google confirms expansion in South Carolina

February 17, 2024 Google

Global search and cloud company Google has confirmed it is behind a data center development project called the Project Dawson in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Details about this project including the campus specifications or project timelines have not been shared. “The Dorchester County Economic...

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Read Bloom Energy adds load ability to fuel cells
Bloom Energy adds load ability to fuel cells

Bloom Energy adds load ability to fuel cells

February 16, 2024 Amazon AWS

Fuel cell provider Bloom Energy has added the ability to follow loads to its fuel towers to enable better adjustment to variable demand and supply in microgrids and utilities.This new offering can be used by data center providers and others on microgrids, and also by the utility, who may use fuel...

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Read Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon
Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon

Amazon Web Services signs wind PPA in Oregon

February 13, 2024 Amazon AWS

Amazon has signed a new power purchase agreement to procure the output of a wind farm from Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. Avangrid, Inc., part of the Iberdrola Group. “We are proud to have signed this agreement with Amazon, a company that shares our commitment to accelerating the...

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Read Google unveils first data center campus in Norway
Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

Google unveils first data center campus in Norway

February 12, 2024 Google

Google has broken ground on its first data center campus in Norway, with the project scheduled to be fully live by 2026. “Now we are building a data center in Norway!,” Tine Austvoll Jensen, country director for Google Norway, announced on LinkedIn this week. “Today we have finally announced that...

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Read GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation
GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, announces resignation

February 09, 2024 GI Partners

GI Partners' managing director, John Sheputis, who has been with the company for over four years, has now announced his resignation. According to his LinkedIn profile, he left the MD role in November 2023, carrying on as a senior advisor until the end of the year before finally departing. He is...

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Read Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs
Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

Kyndryl and Google Cloud partner for AI solution needs

February 09, 2024 Google

Kyndryl and Google Cloud, which have been working together since 2021, has agreed to an extended partnership which will see the digital infrastructure services provider offer its clients access to Google’s AI tools, including its Gemini large language models. Following this partnership, the...

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Read Equinix signs new PPA in Australia
Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

Equinix signs new PPA in Australia

February 07, 2024 Equinix

Global colocation giant Equinix recently announced that it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 151MW of wind power in Australia. The company will pay for 20 percent of the first phase of the giant Golden Plains Wind Farm project, which is being built in rural Victoria, not far from...

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Read Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform
Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

Worldline to move operations to Google Cloud Platform

January 19, 2024 Google

Global payment services company Worldline has agreed to migrate its operations to Google Cloud Platform as a part of its “Move to Cloud” program. Following this partnership, the payment service company will use Google’s Could Infrastructure and Google's data analytics and AI offerings to develop...

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Read Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years
Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

Michael Winterson leaves Equinix after 24 years

January 18, 2024 Equinix

Michael Winterson has left colocation provider Equinix after 24 years to take on the role of managing director for the European Data Centre Association. Winterson wrote on LinkedIn, “Exactly 24 years ago I started my data center career at IXEurope, not 300 meters from our current Equinix offices...

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Read LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

January 18, 2024 GI Partners

GI Partners-owned company LightEdge this week announced it had acquired a 76,000-square-foot, 3.6MW facility, located at 1708 West Creek Lane in Carver County, Chaska, Minnesota. This data center houses 30,000 square feet of data hall space across three private data center suites. LightEdge also...

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Read Google to expand data center footprint in London
Google to expand data center footprint in London

Google to expand data center footprint in London

January 17, 2024 Google

Google this week announced it has commenced plans to expand its data center footprint in the UK with a new campus outside London in Hertfordshire. The company has started building a new facility on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, north of London. And plans to invest $1 billion in the project....

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Read Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team
Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

Google Cloud announces Oliver Parker as head of new GTM team

January 16, 2024 Google

Google Cloud recently announced that former Okta executive Oliver Parker has now been recruited by the company to lead a newly formed go-to-market (GTM) organization. Parker will now become the VP of AI to report directly to Google Cloud’s president of GTM, Adaire Fox-Martin. Parker wrote on...

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Read Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea
Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

Google joins consortium to deploy first Chile-Australia subsea

January 13, 2024 Google

Google revealed in a recent announcement that it will be joining a consortium to deploy the first subsea cable between Chile and Australia. The company said, “Today, we’re joining Desarrollo País of Chile and Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to announce Humboldt, a...

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Read Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees
Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

Google Cloud announces removal of exit fees

January 12, 2024 Google

In a blog post shared on Thursday, Google Cloud Platform announced that it has removed "exit fees" for customers wishing to leave its services. Amit Zavery, head of platform at Google Cloud wrote: "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data...

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